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Everything We Know About X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past won’t arrive in theaters until July 18, 2014, but director Bryan Singer has been teasing elements of the film all over the internet. It’s time to take a look at what we know (and what we don’t know) about the latest X-Men installment.

Story:
According to Singer, the film will be set in 1973, 10 years after the events of X-Men: First Class. The basis for the plot comes from a 1981 story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne (The Uncanny X-Men #141-142) that depicts an alternate timeline created when the X-Men fail to stop the assassination of a senator. The story alternates between a dystopian future, where mutants are hunted by enormous robots called Sentinels and imprisoned in internment camps, and the past, allowing the actors from Fox’s first three X-Men films to appear in the same film as the stars of X-Men: First Class.

If Singer follows the original storyline, then Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) will play a major role in kicking off the events that lead to the X-Men trying to revise history.

James McAvoy has stated he and Patrick Stewart don’t share any scenes, and it’s safe to guess that few (if any) of the characters will “meet” their past selves.

Actors returning from First Class include:
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (of course!)